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  • GE Oil & Gas to Supply Subsea Equipment for Elgin Franklin Gas Field in North Sea (UK)

    7 March 2011
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

      GE Oil & Gas has received a $7 million contract from Total E&P UK Ltd of Aberdeen, Scotland to supply drilling and production equipment for the expansion of the Elgin Franklin gas field in the North Sea. To meet the extreme well pressure and temperature demands of the project, GE is supplying surface wellhead […]

  • Moray Flood Defenses Put to the Test

    10 July 2017
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Royal HaskoningDHV’s flood defenses for five locations in Moray have been put to the test following heavy rain across the area. The flood event came just three months after the official opening of the £84 million Elgin scheme, the largest flood alleviation scheme in Scotland and last of five schemes in the Moray Flood Alleviation […]

  • GDF SUEZ Sells Stake in UK Offshore Fields to Eni

    28 September 2011
    Business & Finance

    Eni and GDF SUEZ have signed an agreement for Eni to purchase the 22.5% shareholding of GDF SUEZ in EFOG, a joint-venture between GDF SUEZ and Total E&P UK Ltd, which holds a 46.2% stake in the Elgin – Franklin fields located in the United Kingdom’s North Sea. Through this shareholding Eni will obtain a […]

  • Wood secures work on UAE’s first large-scale methanol production plant

    27 May 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    UK engineering and consulting company Wood has received a contract from the UAE’s chemicals and transition fuels hub TA’ZIZ to provide project management consultancy (PMC) for the development of “one of the largest methanol plants in the world”.

  • Aphrodite spurs gas boost: Shell taps Subsea7 to breathe life into its new project

    9 June 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Subsea7 has won a new multimillion-dollar assignment with Shell for a recently green-lighted gas project off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago.

  • Unite sets strike dates for North Sea platforms

    26 February 2019

    Scottish workers’ union Unite Scotland has set dates for industrial action on three UK North Sea platforms following last week’s vote by 200 members.

  • Shell retains Aker Solutions on brownfield duty across offshore assets in Brunei

    4 June 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP) has decided to prolong a brownfield services assignment, which PTAS Aker Solutions, a local joint venture between Norway’s Aker Solutions and PTAS, is carrying out in Brunei. 

  • NextGeo taps Norwegian shipyard for survey vessel conversion

    6 June 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Vessels

    Italy’s marine geosciences and offshore construction support services provider Next Geosolutions (NextGeo) has entered into a collaboration agreement for the conversion of a vessel from its fleet at the Norwegian shipyard Green Yard Kleven to perform seabed surveys.

  • Partial shutdown at gas platform, storage site outage drive prices higher

    30 January 2017

    British wholesale gas prices rose on Monday as a partial shutdown of the Elgin-Franklin platform in the North Sea and an extended outage at a gas storage facility tightened supplies, traders said.

  • Data-driven cable monitoring extended at world’s largest tidal array

    10 June 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Technology

    UK-based climate tech start-up Indeximate has secured a three-year extension to provide cable condition monitoring for SAE Renewables’ MeyGen tidal array in Caithness, Scotland.  The contract, active since March 2024, includes an annual subscription to the company’s Scattersphere system, used to monitor cable and environmental conditions across all four turbines. It also covers the storage […]

  • OGA looks into ExxonMobil’s delayed sale of North Sea assets

    26 October 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), has decided to investigate the delay in Esso’s proposed sale of 13 producing fields, including Elgin Franklin, to NEO.

  • Plan for New Container Terminal at Rosyth Unveiled (UK)

    6 October 2010

    Port Babcock Rosyth Ltd held the exhibition in the Elgin Hotel, Charlestown, ahead of it seeking permission to build the international … (thecourier) [mappress] Source: thecourier, October 6, 2010;

  • SunRui wins BV AiP for its wind propulsion technology

    29 May 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Certification & Classification, Regulation & Policy, Technology

    SunRui Marine Environment Engineering Company, a China-based high-tech integrated engineering company and part of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), has received approval in principle (AiP) from French class society Bureau Veritas (BV) for its self-developed wind assisted propulsion system (WAPS).

  • Investments in Ontario Harbors

    23 May 2019
    Business & Finance

    The communities of Bayfield, Lion’s Head, Port Elgin, Dyer’s Bay, Howdenvale, Meaford, Big Bay (North Keppel), White Cloud Island, Pembroke, and Silver Water in Ontario are welcoming important federal investments that will benefit their local harbor infrastructure. Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, Sean Casey, has announced that […]

  • HD Hyundai seeks AI edge in marine technology via new partnership

    21 May 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, IT & Software, Research & Development

    South Korea’s titan HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has shaken hands with the US-headquartered software development company Altair to boost the performance of eco-friendly marine engines and explore further potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in the maritime industry. As disclosed, Altair, part of Siemens Digital Industries Software, a US-based company specializing in 3D and 2D […]

  • UK: Coastguard Coordinates Evacuation from Two Gas Rigs in North Sea

    26 March 2012

    On March 25th, around noon, Total E&P UK evacuated non-essential personnel from the Elgin and Rowan Viking offshore facilities located 240km off the coast of Aberdeen. The evacuation in the central Graben area is due to a well control problem occurring on the wellhead platform at the Elgin field, resulting in a gas release at […]

  • Orlen taps local companies for Baltic East seabed survey offshore Poland

    3 June 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Poland’s Orlen Group has selected three local companies to explore the geological conditions of the seabed within the Baltic East offshore wind farm concession area in the Baltic Sea. A consortium of three companies, MEWO, Orlen Petrobaltic, and Geofizyka Toruń, will conduct geological engineering, seismic, and laboratory tests for Orlen. They will assess the strength […]

  • Attracting innovation in maritime: Another smart port challenge launches in Singapore

    12 June 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Innovation, Ports & Logistics

    The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and NUS Enterprise, the entrepreneurial arm of the National University of Singapore (NUS), have jointly launched the 9th edition of the PIER71 Smart Port Challenge (SPC) 2025.

  • Sea1 Offshore’s to-be-built vessel quartet to sport Kongsberg equipment

    3 June 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Green Marine, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Transition, Vessels

    Four new offshore construction vessels (OCVs) to be built by Chinese shipyard Cosco Shipping for Norwegian offshore services provider Sea1 Offshore are set to sport Kongsberg Maritime comprehensive equipment packages. Sea1 Offshore, previously known as Siem Offshore, placed the order for the first two offshore energy support vessels (OESVs) with Cosco Shipping in November 2024, revealing at […]

  • Thumbs-up for MOL and Samsung Heavy Industries’ SOFC tech-endowed LNG carrier design

    4 June 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Certification & Classification, Vessels

    Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) have received approval in principle (AiP) from the Lloyd’s Register for the design of a 174,000-cubic meter (cbm) liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier (LNGC) equipped with Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) technology.

  • Eco Wave Power pays first installment for wave energy project in Portugal

    29 May 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Wave energy developer Eco Wave Power has paid the first installment, 50% of the grid connection fee, for its planned 1 MW wave energy station in Porto, Portugal. The payment was made to E-REDES, the Portuguese electricity distribution system operator. Eco Wave Power also formally accepted the Connection Conditions for the power plant, as outlined […]

  • Vision Grid Energy and Desein partner to power clean energy growth in India

    23 May 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy

    Vision Grid Energy (VGE) has signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Desein to jointly develop clean energy solutions in India.

  • ULA’s new RoRo cargo vessel to feature Schottel’s propulsion suite

    29 May 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Technology, Vessels

    Germany’s propulsion system manufacturer Schottel has been selected to provide a full propulsion package for U.S.-based United Launch Alliance’s (ULA’s) new roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) cargo vessel being built by Bollinger Shipyards in Amelia, Louisiana.

  • North Sea workers vote for strike over proposed rota changes

    25 February 2019

    Unite Scotland offshore members employed by Aker Solutions and Petrofac have voted for industrial action on the Elgin-Franklin, Shetland Gas Plant, North Alwyn, and Dunbar offshore platforms, protesting against the proposed rota changes from 2:3 to 3:3.

  • Total Extends Contract for Sedco 714 Rig (UK)

    16 August 2012

    One of the world’s largest drilling contractors, Transocean, has announced it has been awarded a contract extension for its Sedco 714 rig. The award comes from Total E&P UK, a subsidiary of the French oil major Total. Under the agreement the rig will continue its work for Total in the UK sector of the North […]